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Shellshag, the Duo You Just Can’t Knock Downnew
Shellshag is Johnny Shell and Jen Shag. He sings and plays guitar and she sings and plays drums. For years they lived in San Francisco and ran Starcleaners, a record label and public arts space. They were in bands together and apart, but all that matters now is that they are Shellshag.
New York Press |
Adam Wisnieski |
02-04-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
André Téchiné Explores Difficult Emotional Territory With Exquisite Detailnew
America may not be ready for André Téchiné’s superb new movie The Girl on the Train. To judge by the audience’s gasp at the film’s Lincoln Center world premiere last year, Téchiné’s signature interest in how race, class and sex intersect remains shocking.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-21-2010 |
Reviews
City Cracks Down on Chinatown Fakes While Putting a Squeeze on Legit Merchantsnew
Very soon, locals say, Canal Street will join Times Square, Astor Place, the Lower East Side, the Garment District and all the other former centers of down-and-dirty capitalist grit that have been safely gentrified. As watch peddler Greg “Heavy” Duval explains, “They want to make this a franchise block.”
New York Press |
Matt Harvey |
01-21-2010 |
Shopping
Joshua Ferris’ Second Novel Has Legs and Knows How to Use Themnew
Whereas Illinois native Joshua Ferris, author of the award-winning debut novel Then We Came to the End, voluntarily relocated to New York, the protagonist of his thoughtful and unsettling second novel, The Unnamed, finds that a force beyond his control governs his physical movement.
New York Press |
Rayyan Al-Shawaf |
01-14-2010 |
Fiction
Flesh Mob: New York’s Vegetarians Have Come Down With Some Serious Bloodlustnew
These days, as high-profile chefs like David Chang resolutely refuse to cater to an animal product-free world, many New York vegetarians are giving up the greens and developing a taste for flesh.
New York Press |
Linnea Covington |
01-14-2010 |
Food+Drink
‘The Emperor Jones’ Proves That Imaginative Direction Has Fled Broadway For Offnew
Rarely do plays that utilize puppets and masks succeed as admirably as does The Emperor Jones. Director Ciarán O’Reilly deserves all the critical accolades coming to him for resurrecting Eugene O’Neill’s play about despots in power, bringing it to crackling life once again.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
01-07-2010 |
Theater
Flavor of the Week: The Cabbie's Consciencenew
I hailed a taxi on 67th Street and fielded a call from Bill, whose anxious, repetitive questions made me suspect he’d entered the cokesnorting portion of the evening. When I ended the call the cab driver said I was pretty, and I thanked him. “You look young. How old you are?”
New York Press |
Jessie Marshall |
12-17-2009 |
Commentary
Was Comedian Andy Kaufman the Greatest Wrestler of all Time?new
Working for the NWA wrestling promotion in Memphis—which he pronounced Maim-phis, with a degrading, faux hillbilly twang—Andy Kaufman took to the air with a series of beauty tips for the local citizens.
New York Press |
Mike Edison |
12-17-2009 |
Sports
‘This’ is Really Itnew
There’s something potent about Melissa James Gibson’s haunting new play This at Playwrights Horizons, something that draws you into the story even as you find yourself intermittently annoyed by the prospect of more floundering yuppies coming to terms with their mortality.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
12-10-2009 |
Theater
It's Been a Banner Year For Brooklyn-Based Movies. But Is There a 'Brooklyn Film'?new
The notably thriving social enclaves of Brooklyn—particularly the areas of Williamsburg and Greenpoint—have grown increasingly gentrified in direct proportion to the down-and-dirty mystique. In that conflict lies a distinct two-headed beast ever-present in the movies of the region.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
12-10-2009 |
Movies
The Princess and the Frog Doesn't Bring Changenew
Hyped as offering the Walt Disney corporation's first African-American animated heroine, The Princess and the Frog actually refrains from expanding our social imagination.
New York Press |
Armond White |
12-04-2009 |
Reviews
What the Hay?new
Suze Orman has been touted as a 'trusted national advisor' and a sensible financial guru. But after visiting a self-help seminar, why is she pushing Hay House hokum to the masses?
New York Press |
Ethan Epstein |
12-04-2009 |
Economy
Kim Deal Talks About the Pixies' 'Doolittle' Anniversary Tournew
"I like albums and I’m kind of a geek anyway, so starting something from the beginning and then doing every song in order is appealing to me."
New York Press |
Adam Rathe |
11-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Goth Girl's Dream Come True: Tim Burton Comes to MOMAnew
Often ghettoized into the cobwebbed recesses of haunted houses, Tim Burton's triumphant oddities and alluring grotesqueries are now anointed by one of the world's elite cultural circles. Now the auteur unveils over 700 never-before-seen storyboards, paintings, drawings, puppets, costumes, sculptures and ephemera at the Museum of Modern Art.
New York Press |
Jocelyn Miller |
11-19-2009 |
Art
Apocalypse Now (or Not?): Next Ager Daniel Pinchbeck Talks Doomsdaynew
The actual date of the shift in consciousness that Pinchbeck and his followers speak of is becoming increasingly ambiguous as it draws closer, suggesting that it functions more as an advertisement for Next Age ideals than a pending disaster warranting mass attention.
New York Press |
Lindsay MaHarry |
11-13-2009 |
Culture
